Software Engineer III

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. 
 

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Position Summary

At F5, we are constantly identifying industry trends and disruptions, innovating to get ahead of future customer needs—creating application services that help the world’s leading organizations deliver their critical business apps faster and with the highest levels of flexibility, security, performance, and quality.

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer III to help design, implement and ensure quality of BIG-IP Next Central Manager features.
Central Manager offers the most comprehensive solutions for security and traffic management for apps spanning on-premises and multi-cloud architectures. This position provides technical opportunities that can make a significant impact on how our customers manage highly secure and performant applications.

Primary Responsibilities

• Review product requirements, contribute to and work with technical designs
• Implement quality code, write end-to-end test cases, and automate them in pipelines
• Great team player, collaborate with peers and technical leads, mentor more junior team members
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of our software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes
• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms
• Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner
• Write technical documentation for internal and/or external consumption, for developers of varying skills levels

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Solid coding experience in Golang; experience with Python is a significant plus
• Strong understanding of microservices-based architecture and deployment
• Self-motivated and willing to delve into new areas and take new challenges in a proactive manner
• Experience delivering software with Agile and Lean Software Development
• Proficiency in Kubernetes and Kubernetes-based architectures
• Understanding of network and web technologies, networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, HTTPS, VLANs, DNS, load balancing and firewalling, etc.
• Good problem-solving skills
• Excellence in written and verbal communications

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or equivalent experience.
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The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.